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Differential Rotation of the Earth’s Inner Core

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  1. Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Xiaodong Song

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Song, X. (2020). Differential Rotation of the Earth’s Inner Core. In: Gupta, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Solid Earth Geophysics. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10475-7_43-1

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